WASHINGTON (AP) â€” The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to erect high hurdles for Syrian & Iraqi refugees coming to American shores, dividing the president's own Democratic party as lawmakers…

By Matt Spetalnick SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov on Sunday, in a rare high-level U.S. encounter with an autocratic ruler…